Hi All: I thought you might like to have the below in the event you didn't know about the update. This is something to bookmark, for sure. Sandi :) List Owner <A HREF="http://ssdi.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/ssdi.cgi">Social Security Death Index Interactive Search</A> or <A HREF="http://">ssdi.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/ssdi.cgi</A> SOCIAL SECURITY DEATH INDEX (SSDI) UPDATE. The February 2000 update of the SSDI is now available to be searched at RootsWeb, making RootsWeb's SSDI database the most current available with a total of 63,305,772 records, significantly more than the total of 62,917,259 records in the January 2000 update. The reason for the nearly half-million records increase in just one month is that RootsWeb's Randy Winch noticed a glitch in the way the government handles the updates, figured out what to do to make it right, then completely rebuilt RootsWeb's database from the updates. In the process, nearly a half-million records that had been missed in the past were discovered and included in the current version of RootsWeb's SSDI database.